Quotes By Author: francis chan

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”

“[Y]ou have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin. When you are pursuing love, running toward Christ, you do not have opportunity to wonder, *Am I doing this right?* or *Did I serve enough this week?* When you are running toward Christ, you are freed up to serve, love, and give thanks without guilt, worry or fear. As long as you are running, you’re safe.”

“True faith manifests itself through our actions.”

“The Christian life is a process of better understanding what Jesus taught, learning to apply that teaching in our everyday lives, and then teaching others – people directly around us and people on the other side of the globe – to do the same.”

“Jesus didn’t speak of hell so that we could study, debate and write books about it. He gave us these passages so that we would live holy lives. Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.”

“Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?”

“The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.”

“‎”Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?”

“But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.”

“God’s definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.”